Moved...

Sorry it's been a few weeks since my last post but it's been rather busy! The worst aspect is that my Unwired broadband service is failing to pick up a signal and so I have no internet at home!

But the move went well which I was very relieved about. My gorgeous guy McBrad of course helped me immensely - on the Friday before the move, he helped me paint my apartment which was a big thing for him...thus far in his life, he's managed to avoid having to paint by simply employing other people to do it for him. So I regard it as a mark of his love for me that he cast aside his aversion to manual labour and did a marvellous job of it!!! My friends Mack, Andy, Jacqui and Dan, as well as McBrad's friend Ted all helped on the day and although it took much much longer than we expected, we did accomplish it all. It has taken me a few big days/nights since then getting the apartment all sorted out, but it's mostly done now! I've still got all my books in boxes, however tomorrow I'm going to buy a couple of bookcases and that will the last thing! I will post some pictures soon, but that will have to wait until I've got myself a new internet account with a fixed line operator. So it's all very exciting. I do love just coming home after work to MY apartment...how good is that! And I'm getting up earlier each morning and actually having breakfast for the first time in several years! And my personal trainer Daz weighed me last night (after a two week absense from gym) and I've LOST 1.5 kgs (or 3.3 pounds) since we got back from holidays so I was very excited by that!

But the best thing has been my new bed. With the move being a little bit more extended than I had originally planned, I ended up staying at McBrad's for a few days. But with my new fridge and bed delivered, and me finally in the apartment, we got to break in my gorgeous new sheets, on my very comfortable new mattress on my very stylish new bed in my lovely new aparment. Nothing like a good ol' shag on new stuff! :-)

So now, it's a matter of getting used to living there, paying off a mortgage, catching a different bus to work, and adapting to my new local supermarket. And being only 8 minutes drive from McBrad's!!! It's all good!!!

PS I miss you...

McBrad had previously arranged to go out for dinner with some friends on Friday night and I really needed to hit the books hard, so I decided to have a quiet night in. It was a good idea, as I had spent the previous two nights with McBrad.

9pm comes and I receive a text message: PS I miss you...

Do I melt into the carpet or what!!! Needless to say, the minute he messaged me that he was home, I was in my car whizzing my way across the Harbour Bridge for a joyful reunion.

Saturday night was my friend Ivan's birthday celebrations. Everyone was meeting at Green Park Hotel from 8pm for drinks etc, so I invited McBrad to come along as well. I drove over to his place, dumped my stuff and then we went to dinner. Dinner done, we were walking down Bourke St heading for the Green Park when he received an sms from one of his friends asking what he was doing. The friend lived on Bourke St so we dropped in and spent an hour or so with his friend and the friend's flatmate. We left them and continued to the Green Park - it would have been around 9pm by that stage and the place was pretty full. I offered to get drinks, so introduced him to Ivan and a couple of Ivan's friends and left him in their care. Waiting at the bar, I get a text message: Hey Handsome, don't be long! x

Do I melt again! This guy is just pushing all the right buttons so far! We ended up staying for a couple of hours and then, joined by my mate Dan, we head over to Palms to meet up with the aforementioned friend and friend's flatmate. We stayed for maybe an hour and then left the boys to continue their dancing! I had some alternative kind of dancing in mind which I wanted to try back at McBrad's!

Last night, I cooked dinner for us at his place and afterwards, we watched the first Harry Potter movie. I love that it's getting nice and cool at night, because he is just soooo good to snuggle on the couch with. He's actually very warm - a big, furrrrry (albeit very fit) Scottish teddy bear! This morning, as he was leaving quite early, he gave me his spare set of keys. Not sure if there's anything in it...I'm not taking it as a permanent thing - just a convenience thing - and I'll try and give them back when I see him next. But I'm chuffed that he trusts me enough already.

PS I did actually finish all the required reading for my DFP over the weekend...now to do the written assignment before I leave for Thailand on Friday! Eeek!

PPS I told McBrad about PC - it was soooo not an issue for him so phew! But I'm glad I told him anyway, it was stressing me and I don't want this to start off on the wrong foot.

A day in the mountains...

Another marvellous weekend is in the making! The Tourist flew back from Melbourne late yesterday - a flurry of texts and a phone call later, we'd organized to meet up for dinner. I went out straight from work with Jacqui, John (the Risk Executive I snogged on Valentine's night), Dan and a couple of Jacqui's friends to the Royal George for a couple of drinks. That done, Dan and I left them and wandered up to TT's hotel room where he had a bottle of vodka and some mixers and had a couple of relaxed drinks on his balcony. By this stage, it was about 9pm and we were hungry. So we grabbed a cab and found ourselves some food and thus sated, hit Palms. We were in a dancing mood and the music at Palms was just perfect for that! So it ended up being quite a late and reasonably alcoholic evening, but lots of fun! I just felt bad putting Dan into a cab to Manly where he lives - I was really hoping he'd pick up!

Dragged ourselves out of bed around 10am this morning as I'd offered to drive TT up to the Blue Mountains for the day. Neither of us really felt like getting out of bed, but his time left in Sydney is limited and there were touristy things that needed to be done! Once we were up and out, it was fine.

The mountains were sensational...there was plenty of blue sky with lovely fluffy white clouds. The cliffs around Katoomba were gloriously garish in their colour; the Scenic Railway suitably suprised (and impressed) TT with its steepness, and lots of pics ensued! It was just a FUN day, spent in the company of a lovely man who's fast becoming a friend! The fact that he's HOT is just the icing on the cake!

He had already arranged to see one of his cousins tonight - going to a BBQ at the cousin's place - and so I dropped him off at his hotel around 6.30pm and came home. I was smashed! Had a nanna nap and have just had dinner, watched a DVD and am now about to hit the sack.

Tomorrow, who knows. Maybe Manly or Bondi beach. Maybe Taronga Zoo. I don't really care - I'm just enjoying him whatever we do!

Monty's Mardi Gras Musings...

Well, it's all done and dusted for 2008! But what a weekend it was!

The Tourist, who I met 2 weeks ago on Fair Day weekend, flew back into Sydney late Friday afternoon and messaged me on the train in from the airport. "Monty, would you like to catch up this evening?". Would I? Hell yeah! "Meet me on the roof of my hotel when you finish work" - he gave me the name of his hotel...a rather pleasant hotel in the Rocks.

I turned up about 6pm, with a 6 pack of beer in my backpack (he'd told me to bring a couple of beers), fully suited out. It turns out, the roof top is where the pool and spa is and he met me there, clad in his swimmers and a towel. He gave me his room card and told me that a pair of swimming trunks was laid out on his bed for me. I left the beers with him, and went down to his room, quickly changed and popped back up to the roof. It was one of those spectacular late summer/early autumn evenings in Sydney...clear blue skies, just a touch of crispness in the air. Thankfully, on the roof, we were in full sun and I was still quite warm from the walk. So we had a quick dip in the pool which was very refreshing! We then jumped into the heated spa which was delightful and opened the first two beers. 2 hrs later, 6 beers finished and dusk well and truly upon us, we were completely relaxed and completely alone! So we indulged in a bit of snogging, and the occasional grope! This man knows how to hit my buttons, that's for sure! Suffice to say, we didn't part company until 10pm Sunday night! I spent the entire weekend with him, stayed with him in his hotel room - it was practically a weekend away for me which was splendid fun!

Anyway, onto the Mardi Gras itself...

Met up with my mates Dan and Ivan, at about 5.30pm Sat arvo at the Columbian for a couple of pre-parade drinks. We then purchased a couple of stools from a streetside vendor and walked up to Flinders St where is was less full on. I must say, the parade was lots of fun. The mood of the people around us was great, everyone was happy and friendly - it was a really nice sense of community there. The floats came by, and they kept coming by, and kept coming by, and we wondered if they were ever going to finish! Some of the gaps were a little long, and some of the floats a little confusing (what the heck is Koala Sutra and what has it to do with being gay?) but some (PUMP - hot boys; Surf Lifesaving - hot boys) were fantastic spectacles. And it was exciting to see friends in the parade - NSSG with the 58/08 float, Simon in the Defense float, and Tad driving the (US) Democrats float truck!

Once it was all over, we joined the mass exodus to The Party! Wow! It was really full this year! I met up with heaps more friends there, but stuck with my little party of Dan and The Tourist all night. It was fun to see the midnight and 2am shows but the music just really didn't do it for me. Is it so wrong to ask for music that hasn't been mixed, remixed and postmixed to within an inch of its life so that you lose all sense of the original song? It all just becomes doof doof after a while and unless you're, ahem, chemically enhanced or drunk off your face, it gets a bit repetitive. We tried a few different pavillions but nothing really grabbed us. And when we went back at 3.30am to the RHI for Olivia's show, the doors were locked and no-one was allowed in...it was already too full. Doh! So we missed out on the highlight of the whole party! It was raining by that stage, and we were all flagging , so we decided to end it and head home.

So the Tourist and I crashed at his hotel...we were in bed by about 5am and ended up not leaving the bed until 6.30pm Sunday night! Bliss. It was simply decadent to spend the entire day in bed with such a hot guy! Took him for dinner at Opera Quays and it was a perfect night for dining al fresco! A nice moonlit stroll around the Opera House followed - some lovely romantic moments to remember! We parted company at 10pm, he to his hotel - he had a 7am flight to Melbourne the following day - and me home.

I had Monday off and so met up for a bloggers brunch with Tom then had a lazy afternoon reading the paper, cleaning up the apartment and some sundry shopping. I then had to cab it into the city for my Monday afternoon torture session with my personal trainer Greg. He's very pleased with my progress thus far and I must say, so am I. I'm actually starting to see results! Yes, that's right folks, Monty is getting muscles!!!

But I must say, it's been an absolutely splendid weekend! One of the best weekends ever! And mostly, it's due to The Tourist. It's amazing to think that we've only met a couple of weeks ago, such is the level of familiarity that we have with each other. We're very comfortable with each other and he's just an easy person to be around. I tell you, if he was in Sydney, I'd be going for him! But true to Monty form, it's destined to be naught but a holiday romance (a FABULOUS holiday romance none-the-less).

One of these days, I will meet a guy who's really nice AND living in Sydney AND intending to stay in Sydney!

I do have a pic of us to post and will add it when I get home tonight.